[Chefelf]

SPIDER-MAN INDIA
SPIDER-MAN EXTENDS FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD TO STREETS OF BOMBAY!

Bangalore, India (June, 2004)— Marvel Enterprises, Inc. & Gotham Entertainment Group –Indian publishing licensee of Marvel Comics and the leading publisher of international comic magazines in South Asia – announces the launch of Spider-Man India.

Spider-Man India interweaves the local customs, culture and mystery of modern India, with an eye to making Spider-Man’s mythology more relevant to this particular audience. Readers of this series will not see the familiar Peter Parker of Queens under the classic Spider-Man mask, but rather a new hero – a young, Indian boy named Pavitr Prabhakar. As Spider-Man, Pavitr leaps around rickshaws and scooters in Indian streets, while swinging from monuments such as the Gateway of India and the Taj Mahal.

Mumbai’s (Bombay’s) first web-swinging Super Hero will be joined by a reinterpretation of the classic Spider-Man villain, the Green Goblin -- reinvented as a Rakshasa, an Indian mythological demon.

“We feel this is one of the most exciting and unique projects in comic history,” said Gotham Entertainment Group CEO Sharad Devarajan. “Unlike traditional translations of American comics, Spider-Man India will become the first-ever ‘transcreation,’ where we reinvent the origin of a Western property like Spider-Man so that he is an Indian boy in Mumbai and dealing with local problems and challenges.”

http://www.gothamcom...piderman_india/

I can't tell if it's for real or not just yet. I also don't care, because it kicks ass either way! In an offensive and kinda dumb way.

[Stongbah]

This is like giving Steve Irwin a cockney accent and stupid catchphrases for American audiences.

[SimeSublime]

What, are you saying the comic should be shot on site, Stongbah?

[reiner]

the Green Goblin -- reinvented as a Rakshasa, an Indian mythological demon.

RakshasaRakshasaRakshasa~

I love that word.

[Stongbah]

What, are you saying the comic should be shot on site, Stongbah?

Think about every other time something cool was retooled for a different audience, it's always crap.

This post has been edited by Stongbah: 16 August 2004 - 12:07 PM

[Cheesehead]

What is this new Spiderman suppose to swing from?
I mean the houses are low and your gone run out of monuments pretty quickly.

[Emu]

I think that if they're reinventing the comic that much, they should just start a new one. They would have more room for originality and not be limited by how people already perceive Spider-Man.

[Chefelf]

I'm with you, Emu. I don't understand when people change so many elements of something and just keep the same name? What point is that? I guess the money still goes to the original creators/publishers, etc. Who knows?

[barend]

Spider-Man India will become the first-ever ‘transcreation,’ where we reinvent the origin of a Western property like Spider-Man so that he is an Indian boy in Mumbai and dealing with local problems and challenges.”

no no...!!!!

'fraid not!!!

what about the indian superman? (1987)

hmmm?




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This post has been edited by barend: 17 August 2004 - 02:44 AM

[SimeSublime]

Think about every other time something cool was retooled for a different audience, it's always crap.

But that's implying that Steve Irwin wasn't crap to begin with.

[Stongbah]

Think about every other time something cool was retooled for a different audience, it's always crap.

But that's implying that Steve Irwin wasn't crap to begin with.

True, I just was having a hard time thinking of something un-American being Americanized.

[SimeSublime]

I generally go with the fact that there are McDonald's stores within 100 metres of one another in most cities world wide

[Stongbah]

the first-ever ‘transcreation,’

Does 3 Dev Adam count?

[barend]

I like the idea of spiderman knifing someone...
that 3devadam shit was really funny!